Ice Hockey 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

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Clear results during the first day of the Continental Cup second round.

 

In Jaca Group HK Liepaja (LAT) defeated Zeytinburnu Istanbul (TUR) 8-1 and Nottingham Panthers (GBR) outscored the Host CH Jaca (ESP) 13-2

 

After Day 1 Nottingham and Liepaja has 3 points, Istanbul and Jaca without a point scored.

 

In Tychy Group, DVTK Miskolc Jegesmedvek (HUN) won against Acroni Jesenice (SLO) 4-1 and the home team GKS Tychy (POL) defeated Dunarea Galati (ROU) by 12-0.

 

After Day 1 Tychy and Miskolc lead the standing with 3 points, Jesenice and Galati in the opposite ranks without points.

 

 

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Day 2 of the Continental Cup Second Round

 

Group Jaca-

Nottingham Panthers (GBR) - Zeytinburnu Istanbul (TUR)  12-1, HK Liepaja (LAT) - CH Jaca (ESP)  10-2.

 

after Day 2

Nottingham and Liepaja has 6 points and will play tomorrow the decisive "do or die" match for the win in the group and ticket for 3rd round, Istanbul and Jaca are already out both still without single point and tomorrow will play together their last this seasons europeans club competition match.

 

Group Tychy-

DVTK Miskolc Jegesmedvek (HUN) - Dunarea Galati (ROU)  5-1, GKS Tychy (POL) - Acroni Jesenice (SLO)  1-2 after overtime.

 

After Day 2

Miskolc is in the lead with 6 points, Tychy in second place has 4 points, Jesenice 3rd with 2 points are already out and 4th Galati without points as well.

Tomorrow Miskolc play against Tychy for the qualification for the 3rd round, Tychy will qualify only if they win in regular time, each other result will qualify the Hungarian champion. Jesenice play Galati in their last match in this seasons Continental cup.

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Let's not forget this one  

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Day 3 of the Continental Cup Second Round

 

Group Jaca-

Nottingham Panthers (GBR) - HK Liepaja (LAT)  3-1, Zeytinburnu Istanbul (TUR) - CH Jaca (ESP)  7-3

 

Final Standing:

1-Nottingham 9pts, 2-Liepaja 6, 3-Istanbul 3, 4- Jaca 0

Nottingham Panthers advance to the 3rd round.

 

Group Tychy-

Acroni Jesenice (SLO) - Dunarea Galati (ROU)  3-2 after GWS, GKS Tychy (POL) - DVTK Jegesmedvek Miskolc (HUN)  5-2

 

Final Standing:

1-Tychy 7pts, 2-Miskolc 6, 3-Jesenice 4, 4-Galati 1

GKS Tychy advance to the 3rd round.

 

 

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Panthers sweep in Jaca

Nottingham moves to Odense for next count

 

 

The Nottingham Panthers pose for a group photo after beating Latvian champion HK Liepaja in the deciding game.

 

The Nottingham Panthers entered Group B in Jaca as favourites and they ended up as winners. A 28-4 goal record in three games clearly spoke in their favour

 

The first game started with a little shocker when Guillermo Betran opened the scoring for the Spanish host CH Jaca against the Panthers but the British turnaround followed a few minutes later and the first period ended with a 6-2 lead for Nottingham, who eventually won the game 13-2. Brad Moran scored two goals and had four points. David Clarke and Robert MacMillan also netted the puck twice in front of 800 spectators at the small rink in the Aragonese city.

 

The day after the Panthers continued with a 12-1 victory against Zeytinburnu Istanbul after generating 80 shots on goal of the Turkish champion. Nine different players scored for the Englishmen including Alexander Nikiforuk, Matthew Carter and Erik Lindhagen each having a pair of goals.

 

The last day had to decide about the winner as Latvian champion HK Liepaja started with six points as well beating Zeytinburnu 8-1 and Jaca 10-2. The game was tense and Liepaja had a 38-29 shot-on-goal advantage against Nottingham.

 

Imants Lescovs opened the scoring from the team of Latvia’s biggest Baltic Sea town but the Panthers bounced back with two goals from Great Britain national team forward David Clarke for a 2-1 lead after the first frame.

 

“We were a little sloppy in the first 10 minutes but we regrouped,” said head coach Corey Neilson according to the club website and praised the special teams units. “Our PK has been good all year but our power play started to click and find some seams and some holes.”

 

It was during the second and third period when the Latvian team became stronger offensively but it was fortuneless against the Panthers Finnish-Swedish goalie Miika Wiikman, who made 37 saves for a 97.37 save percentage.

 

“We should have won this game. We were better, faster, more skilled but didn’t manage to score. We conceded goals due to individual mistakes,” Liepaja’s GM Toms Strauss said.

 

Matthew Carter made things more difficult for the Latvians when he capitalized with a goal during the Panthers’ only power play of the second period to make it a 3-1 lead with 16 seconds left in the second period. The score remained until the final buzzer.

 

The Panthers now advance to the next round where they will battle for a spot in the final tournament against Danish host Odense Bulldogs, the Angers Ducs from France and Ukrainian champion HC Donbass from 18 to 20 November.

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Tychy does it again

Polish team moves on to third round

The GKS Tychy players are all smiles after winning Group C of the Continental Cup on home ice.

 

Like one year ago GKS Tychy won its second-round tournament of the Continental Cup on home ice. Now the Polish team hopes to make the final round again.

 

Overcoming the first hurdle wasn’t easy though for the runner-up from the Polish league. After blanking Romanian champion Dunarea Galati 12-0 on the opening day including hat tricks from Adam Baginski and Mateusz Bepierszcz they struggled in the second game.

 

On Saturday evening Tychy outshot Acroni Jesenice 41-26 but had trouble beating a strong Slovenian goalie Zan Us.

 

Jaroslav Kristek scored Tychy’s only goal of the game to open the scoring with 41 seconds left in the middle frame but Martin Oraze tied it up for Jesenice on a two-man advantage early in the second period and Marjan Manfreda scored the game winner for the Slovenes 77 seconds into overtime.

 

The loss put the tournament hosts in a difficult position. Hungarian champion DVTK Jegesmedvek Miskolc started the event with six points after two games with their wins against both Jesenice, 4-1, and Galati, 5-1. Now the Hungarian “Polar Bears” just needed a win or a regulation-time tie against Tychy to advance while the Polish hosts needed a regulation-time win to move back to first place.

 

Roland Hajos opened the scoring for the team from Miskolc with a power-play marker at 3:36 but Tychy reacted on its man advantages as well. Jaroslav Kristek at 13:42 and Michal Woznica three minutes later gave Tychy a 2-1 first-period lead.

 

Tychy outshot Miskolc 39-17 but had again trouble hitting the back of the net during the second period while Adrian Toth tied the game at two for the Hungarians on another power play at 1:28 of the frame.

 

In the third period and after a major penalty against Balint Magosi the Poles eventually found the path to success in front of 2,650 fans. Martin Vozdecky and Michal Kotlorz scored two goals during the five-minute penalty and Kristek with his second marker of the day scored into the empty net with 70 seconds left in the game for the final score of 5-2.

 

In the next round GKS Tychy will travel to Italian champion Ritten Sport. The other teams in the group from 18 to 20 November will be Shakhtyor Soligorsk from Belarus and Kazakh champion Beibarys Atyrau.

 

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Another incredible own goal in the KHL ! This time by the slovak team Slovan Bratislava Jonathan Cheechoo scored a wonderful own goal throughout the whole rink, when Slovan was 3-2 down against local CSKA Moscow in the last minute of the match so they started play a empty net power play in order to tie the game, but unfortunately after this unbelievable mistake between Cheechoo and the defencer Tomáš Starosta it ended with a 4-2 win for CSKA and a endless shame for Slovan

 

 

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Oh go...I´m crying watching this so fu**ing proud of him.!

 

11 days after he achieved the milestone Marián Hossa was honored yesterday. and what a ceremony it was !!!! one of the most emotional things I saw in my life..

 

the best moment and most hilarious and cute was ofc at 5:20

 

 

but it´s just a moment in your life when you realize how you fulfiled your kids dreams. congrats Marián !

 

and this goal at 1:09

 

 

 

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Today is Champions league day...yes I´m not speaking about the football one

 

1st leg of the Last 16 round was scheduled today

 

Liberec defeated in the czech derby Vítkovice 1-0, Lugano in the swiss derby Zurich 3-2, SaiPa Lappenranta (FIN) won against Växjo Lakers (SWE) also by 3-2 and by the same score 3-2 won also the swiss SC Bern over Jyväskylä (FIN), 2 matches ended by a tie, Kalpa Kuopio (FIN) vs Fribourg-Gotteron (SUI) which eliminated HC Košice in the previous round and Linkoping (SWE) vs IFK Helsinki (FIN) both matches ended with a score 1-1. only two away teams wins today HV71 (SWE) won in Prague against Sparta (CZE) 2-4 and most likely everything about qualifying for the quarterfinals is already clear for Frolunda (SWE) after their todays win 1-6 in Munich against the locals Eisbären (GER)

 

the second leg is scheduled next Tuesday after this weekends 1st this seasons National Teams tournaments break.

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The first this seasons international break has started yesterday with 2 friendly matches

 

Hungary lost to Canada  1-5 in Budapest, The host team opened the score by István Sofroni at 14th. minute, but the Canadian team composed of Canadians playing in different european leagues tied the game quickly after few seconds. Btw..to note, In Team Canada experienced yesterday his NT debut Barry Brust the goalie of Slovan Bratislava

 

In the second yestredays match Great Britain lost to Norway  1-2.

 

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The 1st seasons break will propose to hockey fans this weekend several notable interesting tournaments, the most prestigious ofc will be the first stage of the Euro Hockey Tour, The competitions of the europeans big 4 and will began this weekend by the traditional Karjala Cup in Helsinki. Each country will host one round robin tournament during this season. The first one is the Finlands Karjala Cup.

 

Teams from the second european rank and also play as usual tournaments together, the first one is traditionally the Novembers Deutschland Cup, which will be contested this week end in Augsburg, in a round-robin tournament GER, SVK and SUI will also play against team composed of Canadian players from european leagues.

 

The 3rd levels teams play as usual the Challengers, this week end we will have 2, A very interesting and definitely worth to follow will be the Budapest tournament, will host a 6 nations tournament, 2 Groups of 3 teams wil play each other, the group winners will play on Sunday the final match, the second teams of both groups will battle for the bronze medal match, and both 3rd ranked teams will play a placement match for 5th place. In Group A will play   and in Group B and

The second this breaks Challenger will be played in Bled in a typical round robin tournament with the host team and

 

ofc you can follow everything in our Results database forum

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There also 2 yesterdays womens hockey international matches to mention, Finland - Canada 0-3 and Sweden - USA 0-6